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NEWS PRESS MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1 OK IGIVO wwu i BBCB i Daisy TEMPERATURES Maximum and minimum tamperatun In representative cities, furnished the Associated Pre (ram record compiled by tli weather bureau. Sunken Ships From Gulf Raise Oil off Louisiana Secrecy to Hide New Secretaries Voted Roosevelt riasaau Seeks In Labor War Union Asks Baptists to Help Government in Setting Mfaiimura Wages, Hours Church AM 01 Mssssssssssssssssl Bfrisss! British Broadcast Ruined by Mechanic Accidentally on Air NEW YORK, Aug. 1 "bonera" are coming thick and fast again, to climax a season that haa seen an unprecedented crop of them. England was recovering tonight from the shock of hearing a nationally broadcast speech by Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood followed by the gruffly intoned words, "that bloody man." The embarrassed British broadcasting company explained the words weren't intended to apply to Sir Kingsley and came merely from a couple of mechanics working in another studio which was accidentally switched on the air. Only a few hours later Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees' handsome slugger, precipitated a wave of laughter across the United States by inadvertently mentioning on a radio program the breakfast food that used to make him healthy instead of the one that's making him healthy now.

There was no "explanation" for that except good old human fallibility. England's latest embarrassing moment on the ether followed close on the year's classic, when the announcer describing the coronation fleet review got bogged down after stammering "the fleet's all lit up" and he had to be cut off. That line swept the British nation and ended up in a cigarette advertisement and the assignment of two anouncers to subsequent crucial occasions like fleet reviews. -if" SBBBsl fiF 3E Ms ss sslBT BllliijH IH aJsmW BiiKII fm SaavTsaVsv-ih. 'SBflaaiBBV I i i "HTliBsBBBBM Upsey mi At i.ll ySBBttJjM vl rsHbK BSY SSSSSSSSSJBSSjBSSSS' Not a recreation park these are some of the catwalka built in the Gulf of Mexico for oil-drilling operations around taillou Island, U0 miles from New Orleans.

NASSAU, Bahamas, Aug. 1 CW Uneasiness over recent labor riota in Trinidad and Barbados, sitter British colonies to the south, impelled a conservative element among the native workers here to appeal through the church today for industrial peace in these islands. Native agitators formed a Bahamas labor union last fall, after which the assembly appointed an investigating committee which recommended that the government fix a minimum wage for common labor at four shillings a day, an increase of one shilling over the present scale. The government moves slowly, however, and in view of the disturbances in other colonies the Bethel Baptist church, oldest institution in the Bahamas, converted today's celebration of the 147th anniversary of its founding into a sort of labor conciliation meeting. The church, which has occupied its present picturesque building since 1869, was started by a free negro from St.

Augustine, Prince Williams, in 1790, four years before the Baptist missionary society was founded in London and four years before the first missionary visited here. Its large congregation now includes most of the laboring class in Nassau, including the leaders of the union. Robert Bailey, the elderly superintendent, directed i his sermon" at them. "Let there be no strife between I us for we are brothers," was his theme, and he related how Abra-' ham and Lot, whom he called "the first capitalists," settled their dispute over pasture land ami- cably. The union has sought to or-J ganize principally the workers in i the construction industry, which is booming here again after lean years of the depression.

MIIVJ I iiimih v. i The young miss and the big dapple were participating in the jumping classes of the Tunbridge, Wells, England, riding show. New Offices to be Built For 6 jth no Space Available WASHINGlON, Aug. 1 (P) Virtual invisibility as well as anonymity may cloak the six presidential executive assistants proposed in a bill now before congress. White house officials ay no project for quartering these presidential "trouble-shooters" in the already crowded White House executive office has been put forward.

If President Jtoosevelt intends to put them there, another enlargement of the office, tripled in capacity two years ago, will be necessary or someone else will have to move out. It is expected that if authorized, the half-dozen executive assistants will be scattered in obscure offices in various vast government departments. They will come and go at the White House on their assigned missions by side doors, rarely even seen by the press corps; never communicative. That is if the way "Tommy" Corcoran, most publicized of pres ent day contact emissaries, does it now. And for all the loss of anonymity which press discussion and congressional debate about his doings have cost him, Corcoran still heads the list of executive assistant possibilities in the minds of close-up administration men.

Actually creation of the "secret six" would put the seal of congressional approval on a practice presidents have followed almost always. The personnel of the presidential secretariat at the White House, be it in the days of a one-man show as it was up to President Hoover's day, or the triple secretary arrangement that has prevailed since then, never has reflected the means by which a chief executive kept contact with congress, with foreign affairs or with important domestic groups. All have had roving unofficial contact men, known and unknown, to help them solve their problems. SUGAR BATTLE SEEN KEEPING CONGRESS BUSY Continued from Page One Rico to 126,000. The remainder of their quotas would have to be raw sugar.

The strategy of congressmen from sugar-producing areas on the mainland, as it shaped up today, is to permit the disputed section to be stricken out in committee but to try to put it back on the floor of the house in the hope that the president will sign it. The administration wants a system of sugar control, and it is confronted by the fact that the Jones-Costi-gan quota act, which divides the domestic market among various producing areas, will expire Dec 31. If enacted the bill would supplant the Jones-Costigan quota act and impose the old AAA processing taxes from which benefit payments would be made to producers. President Roosevelt was originally in favor of a tax of 75 cents on the hundred pounds, but informed sources said he would accept the 50-cent tax currently favored. Sugar cane requires 9 to 13 months to mature.

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AA1'ST SNAKES Kditor News-Press In reading the "Views of Other Editors in the July. 31 issue of our paper, I was much interested in the talk on snakes. Now I have had a horror of these enemies of mankind all my life. 1 notice in reading this article where the writer speaks of snakes as "man's friends." Now I wouldn't trust any kind of snake, the kind which crawls on its belly or the kind that wears pants. I notice the writer of this article couldn't understand why so many people fear these creatures.

I believe if he would read the third chapter of Genesis he could better understand why people fear snakes. "Mother Eve had 'been forbidden to eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden but the serpent, filled with wisdom of Satan tempted her to eat, (I imagine he put on pants and tried to imitate some of our 'seducers')- Of course because she was generous of heart, she shared the fruit with her husband. When God called to them she, to her dismay, found that she and Father Adam were naked. When God inquired into this, Father Adam, of course had to blame his wife. She in turn told the truth; that the serpent had beguiled her If you will read the rest of the chapter where God cursed the serpent you will find part of the curse was: "And I will put eternity between thee and the woman; and between her seed and thy seed; It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel." When God speaks the work is done.

I am sure the fear of snakes was planted in men's- hearts at that moment and has descended unto this present generation. How many of our readers have gotten close enough to any kind of snake to see his eyes? They all look as though they have wisdom of Satan in their eyes. Now the farmers and others can use these snakes to help eliminate harmful rodents if they like, but I prefer the rodents to the snakes. And will lend my aid to getting our country free from these reptiles, "poison'' or otherwise. Yours in favor of destruction of all snakes.

MRS. BRYANT NEWELL. U. S. Steamship Co.

Plans Giant Liner WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -(JP) The maritime commission asked shipyards today to bid on a new liner, designed to be "a model of modern ship construction." The liner is intended to replace the decommissioned Leviathan, operated until 1935 by the United States lines. Bids will be opened Sept. 15. In planning the vessel, commission officials and designers used such sea disasters as the Morro Castle fire as object lessons.

Fire resisting material will be used throughout the 34,000 ton liner, they said. The blue prints call for construction that would allow Dr. Chat. U. Gnau Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon 26-32 Earnhardt Bldg.

Tel 136 in momont if ilidn'l likiHv. action, was "fiercer and more heart-breaking" than any world war battle except Verdun. "It is memories such as these that make civilized soldiers hate war, and they do hate it," he declared. "The last conflict brought no profit to anyone, but left many questions unsettled. But they cannot be settled by war.

Yet the prospects for peace do not look promising. "Hatred and suspicion still exist and armaments at enormous cost continue to grow. And if no cure is discovered for this temporary madness we are in a hopeless state, for of one thing we may be certain, and that is, if another war takes place western civilization as we know it cannot survive." JAP TROOPS CRUSH REVOLT AT TIENTSIN Continued from Page One ing to the people for continued support, Katsuki declared the army "had no' alternative but to resort to arms." Measures for setting up a new administration for the Peiping-Tientsin area, from which the hostilities have driven officials of the former Chinese regime, were making rapid progress. Japanese headquarters said a "peace maintenance commission" had begun administering Tientsin. It consisted of nine Chinese, but other Chinese said it was completely controlled by the Japanese military.

Japanese said a similar governing body would be inaugurated in Peiping tomorrow. A group of American, British and other foreign residents appealed to the American and British Red Cross organizations for money to care for thousands of helpless Chinese refugees who have flocked into the foreign con cessions since Thursday's Japanese bombardment of the native city, THIMBLE THEATRE Star of High Alpena 74 I Asheville 88 Atlanta 94 Atlantic City 80 Boston 72 Buffalo 76 Burlington 74 Chicago 76 Cincinnati 84 Cleveland 74 Denver 90 Detroit 78 Galveston 90 i Havre 68 Jacksonville 90 Kansas City 100 Key West 90 1 Little Rock 96 Los Angeles 78 i Louisville 88 Meridian 98 Miami 88 St. Paul 96 1 Mobile 96 New Orleans 94 New York 84 Norfolk 82 Pittsburgh 82 Richmond 84 St. Louis 88 San Antonio 98 San Francisco 66 Savannah 90 Tampa 88 Washington 84 SUGAR BILL FIGHT WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 A Argiculture and interior depi ment spokesmen, in letters Chairman Harrison (l)-Miss) of senate finance committee yester outlined their objections to pend sugar control legislation.

Ac Secretary Wilson of the agri ture department suggested that deadlock might be broken dealing in a separate bill proposed limitations on reflnini Hawaii and Puerto Rico. gressmen from sugar-produ states predicted the house agri ture committee would move day to strike out the disputed i tion but said the administra already had been told it be restored later. Golden Key Open Premium Departme Here SHIVER FURNITURE COMPANY APPOINTED AGENT The Golden Key Company installed a special Premium partment in Shiver's Furni' Company, 2126 Hendry St. For the convenience of Fort ers residents a large selectior well known, nationally advert articles is on display, and car obtained in exchange for Go Key Milk coupons. Two special offers, one, a he kitchen utility set, consisting measuring spoon, egg beater, strainer, spatula, cook's fork rack, also a beautiful 7- Petalware dessert set includiri large serving bowl and set of individual dishes, are being i ured in addition to Pyrex Archer hosiery, Universal cutl Cannon towels, Brownie cam Pepperell sheets and pillow ci Parker Dens and nencils, wat clocks, jewelry, silverware, as as many other useful and tractive items.

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HUTTO 11M YIsfariaSL REBELS PUSH DRIVE TO CUT VALENCIA ROAD Continued from Page One! kitchen. The insurgent communique reported only artillery action on the Madrid and Granada fronts and all quiet along the northern coast. Dispatches from Madrid reported that a heavy insurgent attack in the Usera sector, southeast of Madrid, had been thrown back by government machine gunmen and dynamiters after two hours of fighting. As the insurgents retreated, the dispatches said, government troops charged and captured lines which had been called the "death trenches" because of heavy government losses in previous attempts to take them. ROOSEVELT TO STAY FRIENDS WITH FRENCH Continued from Page One people of the United States find union today in common devotion to the ideal which the memorial at Montfaucon symbolizes," he said.

"That ideal, to which both nations bear faithful witness, is the ideal of freedom under democracyliberty attained by government founded in democratic institutions." President Le Brun, speaking im mediately after President Koose-velt, said his words "brought forth emotion hard to control." He spoke words of reason whose echo will go far beyond those to whom they were des tined," Le Brun declared. "France here today publicly re news her gratitude to America on the site of her great victory. General Pershing declared that fVi Monoo-iMrnnnp rnmnrnirn. wic which Americans were in P0PEYE KfKlstertd U. 8.

Patent Office Now Showing NEW ORLEANS Vast fortunes in "black gold" are believed to be under the Gulf of Mexico. But title to the rich oil fields is in doubt. Though the legal tangle is far from raveled, drilling operations such as the world has not seen are going on. Getting oil from soil hundreds of feet under the sea has meant scrapping of methods used heretofore. Ships Sunk to Help Work With no solid bottom for foundations, derricks, boiler houses and machinery have been mounted on special barges which are sunk at the drilling site, then raised when it is necessary change location.

Mile upon mile of walkways have been constructed so that the new web-footed "roughnecks," as oil workers are known, can get about. The walks are heavily creosoted and workers have to protect exposed skin with ointment. A fleet of one-time merchant vessels beached on the mud flats or at salt domes, serve as storage tanks and have the added advantage of requiring no costly foundations. At one point, the abandoned French convict ship, Tampi-co, still bearing the shackles that chained prisoners destined for the Guiana penal colonies, serves as a dock for deep-sea barges that transfer the oil from storage ships to tankers. Radio telephones, setsmographic exploration from power boats and luggers, tractors that travel on marshy land or water, and amphibian planes that reduce to minutes trips from field to field that formerly took days are used in this strange variation of the endless hunt for oil.

The new wealth being forced from the depths of the gulf dwarfs the plunder that the pirate, Jean Lafitte, once brought through the tortuous bayous and lakes to New Orleans. The vast trapping operations that once were the major industry of marshy Louisiana have been overshadowed. Louisiana is in a favorable position in the new industry. It had a head start in exploring submerged properties. And it probably is the largest owner of oil lands in the South because of public domain over VJater bottoms that never can be sold.

But state land offices from Alabama to Taas are wrestling with the knotty problem of under-sea ownership whether the land is in state or federal jurisdiction. If it is adjudged state property the royalties from drillers will pour millions of dollars into state treas- uries. That's only for territorial waters, however. A more intricate -problem has arisen with a report by the United States coast anu Geodetic survey of the discovery of a salt dome, usually the indication of an oil pool, 18 miles out ir. the gulf.

That is the international zone. Some experts think this new oil empire will have to be discovered and claimed for some nation, as other new territories have been. In the meantime, it is not so dumb to buy land covered by 10 or 500 feet of water there might be oil under them thar waves. ORLANDO MURDER ORLANDO, Aug. l(IP Louis Pihos, 45, operator of an all night restaurant, was found slain here yesterday in his business establishment.

An autopsy revealed his skull was fractured in 12 places. Police said Pihos was struck with a meat cleaver or an axe, one blow-leaving a gaping hole in the top of the head. A checkup revealed that $71 in cash was missing from the restaurant's cash drawer. Jeff Davis, an iceman, and O. F.

Murlong, driver of a bakery truck, found the body of Pihos crumpled behind a counter. Dearborn Police To Get Hearing DETROIT, Aug. 1 (JP) John J. Fish, chairman of suburban Dearborn's commission of safety, said today that charges against six Dearborn police officials growing out of the fighting at the Ford May 2fi will be considered Monday night. Judge Ralph W.

Liddy of common pleas court, who conducted a one-man grand jury investigation of the clash between United Automobile workers and Ford employes, ordered action against five Dearborn policemen and a police matron for wilful neglect of duty. "Commission members have not had an opportunity to examine the charges made by Judge liddy," Fish said- "The charges will be given due consideration." Fish added that "locally there has been no criticism of the conduct of any officer in the police department." TWO BOYS KILLED ROCKPORT. Aug. 1 OP) Caught in a landslide of tons of trranite. two vouths were almost instantly crushed to death today when the rim of a 100-foot rock ledare from which they were view ing the sea gave way.

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CHINA Continued from Page One Chinese said "thousands" of non-combatants had been killed. Am0rijann. Warrv S. Mar- tin of Boston and James A. Hunter of Peoria, 111., were in Tung-chow, but escaped harm.

The missionary school was reported safe except for destruction of its gateway by a Japanese bomb. Yi Ju-Keng, who had incurred the hatred of the Chinese for his ties with Japan which included a Japanese wife had been reported killed or missing until he turned up in the Japanese embassy. Chinese asserted that the new regime the Japanese were building on the ruins of that headed by Yin would be similar to the protectorate maintained by Japan over Manchoukuo. They believed it would be expanded to include much more territory than Yin Ju-Keng's realm. WAGE, HOUR FIGHT SHIFTS INTO HOUSE Continued from Page One er D-Mont) and Senator Johnson (D-Colo).

The eliminated section forbade the interstate shipment of child-made goods, but gave the children's bureau much discretion in granting exemptions. The Wheeler-Johnson draft, besides closing the channels of interstate trade to child labor goods, would prohibit their shipment into a state which banned them. It defines child la bor as the labor of persons under 16 years of age or, in hazardous pursuits, under 18. Legislators expected the fight in the house would be based on much the same arguments as in the senate. In that chamber Senator Byrnes (t)-SC), one of a number of southerners who criticised the measure, said it would be a Tlow to small business.

He also contended that although agriculture is exempted, the bill would increase the price of goods farmers buy. Senator Black (D-Ala) hailed the senate action as a fulfillment of a Democratic platform pledge, while Senaftor Berkley of Kentucky, majority leader, called it a praiseworthy attack on "human problems and social problems." i ma att fcsjs km By E. C. Segar "Just Another Yes Man" "VOU vE fcSKED VOUR A I JEEP, IF VER. VrlN' TO I Tffi AR2 JEEP rLL fXBOOT ME 1 ME GCNER GOOD HONEST KIND- WO EVERV WWER GIVE VA A GOOD HEfRTea WAW-fBl0tN HAS BEEN IN xZ fvr- SPfcNKlN'-NOW OTlXEN FAVOR LISTEN fN ANSU)ERy fvpci I Know weR lNBi'TClsVPffi'V 't J- ONE-DOES MtSTER yiZZS WN NOT I V.

RROwiN LOME HS Viz DIGGER lT ROOSEVELT CRUISES WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 UP a Psvoirbint Roosevelt and a party 1 45 pp- f- of guests returned to Washington Safety of Your Deposit in The MORRIS PLAN BANK Up to 65,000 is fully insured Pays 2'i per cent arty tonignt rrom a cruise Chesapeake bay. The guests in-ehttM Secretary and Mrs. Hull, nmi Mnrnhv. of Michigan, and JfjM Josephine Roche, assistant IU Hie l'nui v..